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the ranch house in a residential area I have never visited, decorated in doll and the real Elvis as there is between you and your personality type." I want to object that the doll does resemble the real Elvis, intelligence."
    in his youth anyway and before his unfortunate weight gain; at It turns out, though, that my Original, Effective, Good and least anyone could see that it is not a Barbara doll. But that Loving traits are not the point. The point is to understand my misses the larger questions of what I am doing here if the test
    "nonresourceful" side, which seems to be my bad side, because is meaningless and what it has to do with finding a job anyway.
    this is what I need to do something about. Some people, Morton Besides, he's putting Elvis down on a side table now, leaving us says, addressing the brown and wintry lawn outside the dining alone with the Oz crew.
    room window, resist hearing about this side. One woman, a We move on to the results. It turns out that my scores "could schoolteacher, broke into tears when she learned about hers. In fit almost any personality type." I'm highest in Original and my case, the nonresourceful side includes being overly sensitive and Effective, and when you plot that out on an Enneagram, the prone to melancholy and envy, not to mention the bad traits that diagonal lines connect me to Good and Loving. This come up when you draw diagonals from Loving and Effective. What makes me a tin man with a little lion thrown in, he says, finger-this comes down to, in a practical sense, is that, given my highly ing the appropriate dolls. Next, he brings out the baffling emotional and artistic personality (where did that come from?), I transparencies, which have been sitting here all along in a file probably "don't write very well." The "suggested activity," in my folder. This time I resolve to get to the bottom of things, but case, would be "intensive journaling workshops" to polish my when he flashes the transparency labeled "The Enneagram writing skills.
    Symbol," with its nested triangles, all I can come up with is, There is nothing to do but mumble my thanks, write out the
    "What is the circle doing here?" It's there, he explains, "for check, and leave. I think of my father, whose personality graphic unity"—meaning that he just likes the look of it?—and also traitsincluded brash, cynical, bombastic, obnoxious, charming, to show that "we are talking about a whole person." And the big kindly, and falling-down drunk, yet who managed to rise from the triangle? I continue, losing heart. "Those are the three centers of copper mines of Butte to the corporate stratosphere, ending up as vice president of research for a multinational firm. Did he bond at once; she is the anti-Kimberly, noninvasive and utterly ever take a personality test or submit to executive coaching?
    down-to-earth. Although I'm not sure whether their functions Or were things different in the fifties and sixties, with a overlap, I decide it's best not to tell Joanne about Kimberly or vice greater emphasis on what you could actually do? What would he versa.
    have made of Morton, the dolls, and the ancient wisdom of the Of my three coaches so far, Joanne is the first to give me some Enneagram? I drive home with his deep guffaws echoing in my real reason for hope. She picks up on the word speech-writing head.
    buried in my first, feeble attempt at a resume, and tells me to ramp it up as a salable skill, and I realize, yes, that's something I can actually do. Up to this point, crisscrossing my contempt for MORTON DOES HAVE one useful tip to offer: if I want Morton and Kimberly's psychobabble, has been a deep strain of help with my resume, I should see Joanne, whose e-mail address anxiety that I may, in fact, have nothing to offer, no skills of any he will e-mail me. Joanne turns out to be available at the same fee relevance to the wide world of moneymaking. My PR and event-as Kimberly, and meets me at a coffeehouse only ten minutes